The Science of Pain....
What is pain?
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage (Definition according to IASP).
In other words, pain is an alarm.
Research has shown that those who understand the science of pain actually experience less pain. Below are some resources to get you started....
Educational Resources:
Videos
Professor Lorimer Moseley - Why Things Hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLdIHjs
Professor Peter O'Sullivan - Making Sense of Back Pain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlSQLUE4brQ
The Pain Truth and Nothing But
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPjv97unQu0
Taming the Beast (understand pain)
https://vimeo.com/212350345?ref=fb-share
5 minute pain talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3phB93rvI
The Complexity of Pain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv6RPoVZx9M#action=share
Pain and Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUXPqphwp2U&sns=em
Knee Pain - Thinking Outside the Joint:
https://www.facebook.com/noigroup/videos/10154427756748527/
Why Your Knees Crack:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NQOZZgh5z8I
David Butler on Graded Motor Imagery Part 1 (there is also a part 2 and 3 which come up after Part 1)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyhpiXy9Ig
What is Graded Motor Imagery
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fWYUJscRBRw
David Butler explains smudging in the brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QVAY5stO3U&list=PLiHO5DAsV-Ynk0yc6O--m37ZfB2Hslj7k
This page has a few great videos and resources for kids and teens
https://www.painbc.ca/chronic-pain/kids-and-teens
En Français
Comprendre la douleur en 5 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qJuARzD9d4
Prof Peter O'Sullivan - Douleur au dos avec sous-titres en français
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq1GEVBIBAw
Comprendre la douleur en 10 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5YUg45WFDM
La mémoire de la douleur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT3_gaOjQgg
Trousse à outils contre la douleur
http://www.paintoolkit.org/downloads/PTK_France.pdf
Websites:
Pain Education
Pain BC
Association Québecoise de la douleur chronique
http://www.douleurchronique.org
Pain Tool Kit
NOI Group
http://www.noigroup.com/en/Home
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
https://crps-uk.org/what-is-crps/
Meditation Apps
Articles:
The Problem with an Entirely Structural Based Approach to Low Back Pain:
Books:
Explain Pain
By: Lorimer Moseley
Why Do I Hurt?
By: Adriaan Louw
Understand Pain, Live Well Again
By: Neil Pearson
My Stroke of Insight
By: Jill Bolte-Taylor
When Survivors Give Birth
By: Penny Simkin
Movies:
The Connection